The New PI Sets Up a Lab

I need to hire a Research Assistant either with a very specific attitude or set of skills, so I wrote a somewhat detailed job description a...

I am an avid shopper and I love nice things, but as a grad student and postdoc I didn't have much money, so I've become an expert ...

A friend recently posted a great article from The Chronicle of Higher Education on " Self-Sabotage in the Academic Career ", whic...

I have written a lot of about management and grants and lab equipment, but I have not written much about science. I was trying to keep the ...

I am still not sure whether this is going to be a good review or a bad review. It may shake out one way or another as I write it. We do a...

As I start the lab I am trying to figure out where things are going to go in the future and come up with a career development plan. The inf...

As I was preparing to start this new adventure of running a lab, I have been collecting more and more tips post has been very popular, I th...

One of my former bosses always said that running a lab is a lot like running a small business: your research is your product and you have t...

Tomorrow I start the job I have been working towards for the past 15 years and I have been dreaming of since middle school. I always wanted...

Nowadays sometimes there is so much to do, that I don't have the time to think, let alone get organized in my life. There are days wh...

Mentors are necessary for any type of career development (Where would you go if nobody recognized your talents and cultivated them?), but...

This has been an exciting and emotional week. I am venturing into a new field in biology and I decided to attend a small specialized confer...

Lat month the NIH announced some changes to the K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award guidelines ( NOT-OD-13-034 ), as a results of recomme...

As a young principal investigator (PI) you have to find money wherever you can. In addition you have to start thinking for places for yo...

I guess that if you went to business school management jargon and strategy would become second nature, but as a scientist you are not train...